this book is one of my favorite i ordered Paper Book from Amazon ,it is so easy to understand and ready sentences with translation ,lots of expression,and most common questions that have answers and gives you lots of idea

An excellent book based on an excellent idea: answering, in different ways and with different levels of difficulty, very basic questions about yourself. That's extremely useful because, until you reach an upper-intermediate level, that's basically what you do all the time: speak about yourself and repeat your life story over and over. And that's where this book becomes very handy, to learn new and enriched ways of expressing the same facts.

The book shows up with several main qualities. Among them, the shortness of the contents answers perfectly to some difficulties that come along to beginners when they face too long resources and can't follow exactly what it is said. Here in this book, the notes that go along the answers of the characters help you to understand and eventually use the words and expressions again, as if you were egyptian. Moreover, the records of the questions and the answers warrants for the right pronunciation. A must read !

I'm about half way through this book and I think it's great, even when I don't have too much time to sit down and study. It's good for picking up vocab and phrases (and brilliant that everything is written out in both English-style spelling and Arabic script) and practicing listening/reading too - I've been listening to the audio files when I'm out and about to try and help myself remember everything. Lots of different topics are included and it's just great to hear the same thing said in different ways as is usual in a real-life spoken language. I'd definitely recommend this book! The way I usually study it is 1. Listen without looking to see what I understand. 2. Practice reading the Arabic script, then check my reading with the English-style spelling, and finally read the translations underneath (and then listen again while reading). 3. Add any new vocab/phrases into my ANKI flashcard deck. 4. Listen again one more time without looking. 5. Continue practicing with the flashcards/listening to the audio later on... (I also sometimes write/say my own response to the question).

Really enjoyed the contextual organization of the book. And the way grammatical points are aded slowly. Helps with assimilation.
On the down side I wish each conversation was a separate recording.
Spoken speed is very native and hard to understand. Would like to set one dialog on repeat so I can get used to the speed.